SPIE Student Chapter

SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers)

SPIE is coined from Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, a society of international repute dedicated to imparting
advance photonics-based technologies. Since its inception in the year 1955 it has been serving more than 180,000 constituents from
168 countries. This US based society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education,
publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. SPIE publishes the SPIE Digital Library, containing more than 296,000
research papers from the Proceedings of SPIE and the Society's 9 scholarly journals with around 18,000 new papers added each year, and more
than 120 eBooks from the SPIE Press catalog in the fields of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Electronic Imaging, Nanophotonics,
Photonics for Energy, Applied Remote Sensing, Biomedical and Optical Engineering

SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North America, Europe,
Asia, and the South Pacific. It also recognizes outstanding contributions from individuals throughout the scientific community regardless of
membership status by SPIE's awards program. In 2009, the Society provided more than $2 million in support of scholarships, grants, and other
education programs around the world.

Membership includes Fellows and Senior Member programs. The Society has named more than 840 SPIE members as Fellows since 1955, and
implemented its Senior Member program in 2008.

Elected officer of Students Chapter of B.P.Poddar Institute of Management and Technology